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The DC Neighborhoods With the Best Home Appreciation in 2016 [Urban Turf DC] That’s right, it’s time for your annual tradition of reading this list, feeling lacerating guilt and regret, and then tearfully asking yourself in the bathroom mirror, “why did you spend another year wasting money on rent? Why can’t you get your life together? What’s wrong with you??”

No Rent for Rats [Jacobin] A fascinating look at the history of the tenant movement in NYC. There’s a long list of reasons why this kind of movement never took hold in DC, but I fear that #1 is that no one ever thought DC was cool enough to squat in.

Writer J.G. Ballard’s Home Is For Sale [Dangerous Minds] Buy this house and I guarantee that at some point in the future, you’ll find, under a floorboard or at the back of a closet shelf, some kind of weird, possibly vacuum-cleaner-related, pornography.